Today Sue and I did our sampling from helicopter floats! Such an adventure. Some of the lakes Sue has included in her study are more isolated than the ones we have been using the canoe on and would be a 45 min hike dragging the canoe through the forest to get to them. So helicopter is our mode of transportation. Helicopters are soooooo expensive! Luckly the Lesack lab has a grant for helicopter time so we hopped onto a Long Ranger at the airport and off we went. The delta looks so unreal from the sky! Hundreds of lakes scattered [View Full Entry]

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Waves in the channel North America » Canada » Northwest Territories » Inuvik By Ocean lady July 1st 2007 Sarah Ballard Day #2 in the field: Happy Canada Day! We missed all the town festivities because we were out on th [View Full Entry]

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Well today was our first field day on the Mackenzie delta and the weather apparently did not know this, or maybe it did.... Sue is studying the landscape-level variation of dissolved organic carbon amoung the delta lakes, particularly the effects on food web structure and implications of the future (ie global warming). We roared down the silt filled channel in our 16 foot motor boat. Sue says that the river is low this year, meaing that there was not as much of a flood this year. The banks of the river looked like perfectly aligned vertical stacks of mud with [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday I arrived in Inuvik, NWT! The land of the midnight sun:) For those of you who do not know where that is, look at a map, you will find me at the top of the world! Inuvik is 2 degrees north of the Arctic Circle on the Mackenzie River Delta. The environment as somewhere between the treeless tundra and the northern boreal forest, and as I saw from the flight in, the is in the middle of an incredible maze of lakes and streams of the Delta. Inuvik means "place of people" and that is what it is in [View Full Entry]

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